Yusef Komunyakaa's seventeen books of poetry include Taboo, Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize, Warhorses, and most recently The Chameleon Couch and Testimony.
His many honors include the William Faulkner Prize (Universite
Rennes, France), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award
for Poetry, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays, performance
art, and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia, Testimony, and Gilgamesh: A Verse Play. Komunyakaa's prose is collected in Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries (University of Michigan Press, 2000). He also co-edited The Jazz Poetry Anthology (with J. A. Sascha Feinstein, 1991), co-translated The Insomnia of Fire by Nguyen Quang Thieu (with Martha Collins, 1995), and served as guest editor for The Best of American Poetry 2003. He teaches at New York University.

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